"I have learned to walk: since then, I make it a point to run. I have learned to fly: since then, I don’t wait to be nudged to move from my place. Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below: now it is a god that uses me to dance."
Friedrich W. Nietzsche
A performance that raises important questions about the creative process in contemporary art in relation to the roles of the Self-Author and the Self-Spectator, more generally about the gap between the Self and the Other, and also about the value of the "signature." Aurelia Baumgartner, who defines herself as a "dancer-philosopher and philosopher-dancer," has directed her research toward the contamination between choreographic writing and painting, video art, and installation. In this performance, the artist Silvio Cattani will intervene as both the recipient-spectator of the choreographic action and at the same time the sender-producer of the artistic action.
Configuration of Sign-art-our stages contemporary performative art as a “permanent and open process” in which artists and the audience simultaneously participate in the creative act: who then has the right to “sign” the work?
Aurelia Baumgartner studied philosophy, theater, and literature at LMU University in Munich and trained as a dancer at Iwanson International. Since 2001, she has been the director of the Contemporary Dance School of Berg (Munich); in 2004, she founded the Aureliana Contemporary Dance Project, with which she has toured Europe with productions of dance and video art. She has performed as a soloist with the group Sol y Sombra and danced in Richard Siegal's production Co-Pirati at the Tanz Festival in Munich. The volumes Choreographic Captures and Tanzgedanken-Gedankentänze are just some examples of her creative work as a choreographer and dancer inspired by the semiotic theory of “Körper-denken (Body-thought)” that she is developing.
Silvio Cattani was born in Trento in 1947; he is an artist who graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and has exhibited his works in museums and galleries internationally. Among his most recent exhibitions are Ai lati della stella (Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto), Talismani (Maschio Angioino, Naples), Oltrelaguna (Palazzo Ferro Fini, Venice), and Steps to dream (Lee Gallery, Berlin; Italian Cultural Institute, Munich). He has studios in Rovereto and Venice.
Vincenzo Lapertosa is an Italian dancer trained at the National Dance Academy in Rome and refined at the Cecchetti Academy in Civitanova Marche. He has danced with the Birgit Cullberg Ballet; among his best-known choreographies are Danza Sourana (1997), Koho’zos (1999), Installazione (2002), and Dove sei? Madre (2004). He is currently a dancer for the Gärtnerplatz Theater in Munich and a member of the Aureliana Contemporary Dance Project. He teaches classical and contemporary dance.
